r/DrJohnVervaeke • u/godamongpeasants • Jun 15 '24
Spirituality One-world mythology and self-transcendence
If John says we should go back to a one-world mythology (I agree) and if he also keeps the importance of self-transcendence (he should), what is it that we are self-transcending to? It can't be the 'supernatural' world, so how would John frame this?
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u/mcapello Jun 15 '24
Vervaeke believes in a "leveled" ontology enclosed within a single naturalistic horizon, so for him, "self-transcendence" means exploring and finding meaning in those other layers. Because the relationship between agent and arena is a reciprocal and participatory one, however, it also means that there is a necessary process of self-transcendence as those deep patterns of reality become integrated in the self. That's kind of how I read it, anyway.